Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Coordinates: 39°0′57″N 125°44′26″E / 39.01583°N 125.74056°E
The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (Korean: 조선로동당 중앙위) is the leadership body of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). According to Party rules, the Central Committee directs the Party work between the Party Congresses. It is elected by the Party Congress itself, although Party conferences can be called to perform this duty as well. The current Central Committee, the 6th, was elected by the 6th WPK Congress in 1980.
The Central Committee, which is currently made up by more than 300 people between full members and alternate members, should meet at least once every year (the clause was every six months until 2010). However, no meeting at all was convened between the 21st Plenary Meeting of the 6th Central Committee in December 1993 and the September 28, 2010 Plenary Meeting.
The Central Committee, usually at its first plenum after having been elected by the Party Congress, elects in turn the Political Bureau (or Politburo) and the Presidium (or Standing Committee) of the Political Bureau, which is the paramount decisions-making organ. It also organizes the Central Military Commission, the Control Commission and the Secretariat of the Central Committee (with administrative tasks only). The many Party departments (Organization and Guidance, Propaganda, etc.) are nominally under the Central Committee's jurisdiction, and it appoints their directors as well as the editor-in-chief of the official Party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun.
...
Wikipedia